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CEO/Founder: Peter Bayer
Team Chief: Laurent Mekies
Technical Chief: Jody Egginton
Sports Director: Tim Goss

Chassis 2025: VCARB-02

Engine: Honda RBPT
Tyre: Pirelli

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Reserve Driver: -

Season 2025

The team, formerly known as Toro Rosso and AlphaTauri, retains the name Visa Cash App Racing Bulls (VCARB) in 2025, confirms Yuki Tsunoda as the first driver, while Lawson, promoted to Red Bull, has been replaced by newcomer Isack Hadjar, a young talent from Formula 2.

The technical management will still be entrusted to Jody Egginton, Laurent Mekies remains general manager and Tim Goss sports director. CEO of the stable is permanently Peter Bayer.

From 2023 Racing Bulls has been progressively relocating its UK operations to a new state-of-the-art facility at the Red Bull Technology Campus in Milton Keynes, to improve synergy with the main Red Bull Racing team. It will continue to use Honda RBPT engines in 2025.

The 2024 single-seater struggled to remain competitive in the second half of the season, due to a number of updates that made it complicated to find the right operating window and setup for qualifying and the race.

At the O2 Arena in London on Feb. 18, the team unveiled the livery of the new single-seater in the presence of drivers Yuki Tsunoda and Isack Hadjar.

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Storia

History
Scuderia AlphaTauri, known from 2006 to 2019 as Scuderia Toro Rosso, is an Italian Formula 1 racing team based in Faenza, Italy, heir to Minardi after its purchase by Austrian company Red Bull.

The team's manager is Austrian Franz Tost. From February 2006 to November 2008, former Austrian driver Gerhard Berger, a long-time friend of Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz, and one of the first testimonials of the energy drink, owned a 50% stake in the Italian team.

In October 2019, it is announced that from 2020 the team will take the name Scuderia AlphaTauri, in order to promote the fashion brand founded in 2016 by Red Bull. The name Scuderia Toro Rosso is thus abandoned after 14 years. The name AlphaTauri comes from Bayer's nomenclature ‘α Tauri (Alpha Tauri)’ of Aldebaran, a star that is located in the constellation Taurus and has a colour tending towards red (it is usually considered orange): all characteristics that pay homage to the name of the founding company. The name change also led to a radical change in the livery on the new AlphaTauri AT01, which lost its electric blue and red colours in favour of white and midnight blue.

The driver pairing of Daniil Kvjat and Pierre Gasly, who had contested the last nine races of the previous season, was confirmed for the 2020 season. At the Italian Grand Prix the Italian team returned to victory with Pierre Gasly, the first under the new name, 12 years after Sebastian Vettel's first success at the same circuit in Monza. In the Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna at Imola Pierre Gasly, who started from fourth position after some excellent qualifying, was forced to retire on lap nine with a technical problem. Daniil Kvjat finished the race in fourth place, the Russian driver's best result of the season, after a great restart in which he managed to pass three cars on the same lap, including the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. The season ends with a better haul than 2019, 107 points, but despite this the AlphaTauri drops back to seventh place in the constructors' championship.

For the 2021 season, the Faenza-based team confirms Pierre Gasly after the excellent performances of the previous season. In place of Daniil Kvjat, who is set to leave the team, the younger Yuki Tsunoda, fresh from a third place in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, is signed. 2021 is the last year of engine supply by the Japanese manufacturer, which retires from the top series at the end of the championship. At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Gasly finished on the podium in third place. At the Hungarian Grand Prix, the same French driver achieved the second fastest lap in the history of the team, the first under the new name. Other excellent top ten finishes in the second half of the season allowed the team to obtain a record number of points, 142, and to equal its best result in the constructors' championship by finishing sixth, as in 2008 and 2019.

With Honda's withdrawal from the supply of its engines, on 14 February 2021 it was voted by the FIA and the entire Formula One management to freeze the engines from 2022 until 2025, bringing to fruition the agreement between Red Bull and its engine manufacturer to use Honda engines even after withdrawal, absorbing its intellectual property, which will give Red Bull the possibility of being self-sufficient by 2025. Red Bull thus creates the Red Bull Powertrains division and enters fully-fledged as engine manufacturer from 2022, supplying engines also to AlphaTauri. The driver line-up remains unchanged, with Pierre Gasly joined by the confirmed Yuki Tsunoda. After the previous three very positive seasons, the Italian team experienced a very noticeable decline, and the two drivers only rarely managed to finish in the top ten: the best result was Gasly's fifth place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. This results in a rather poor final balance, with only 35 points scored, which sees AlphaTauri slip to ninth place in the constructors' championship.

The 2023 season saw a change in the drivers‘ line-up: Pierre Gasly left the team to move to Alpine, being replaced by Nyck de Vries, Williams’ third driver who had already competed in 2022 in place of Alexander Albon, alongside the confirmed Yuki Tsunoda. Like Red Bull, AlphaTauri also sees its engines renamed Honda RBPT from this year. The start of the season is difficult and the new car, the AT04, does not improve on the performance of the previous model. Only two points are collected in the first 10 races, both from Tsunoda with two tenth places.

On 11 July, after the British Grand Prix, the dismissal of De Vries was announced, who was replaced by Daniel Ricciardo from the Hungarian Grand Prix. For the Australian driver it is a return, having already raced with the team from 2012 to 2013 (when it was still called Toro Rosso).

In the last round before the summer break in Belgium came the third point of the season, again thanks to a tenth place finish by Tsunoda. During free practice for the Dutch Grand Prix, Ricciardo was the victim of an accident in which he suffered a fractured left wrist, which prevented him from completing the rest of the weekend. From qualifying he is replaced by young New Zealand test driver Liam Lawson, who, given the prolonged injury, drives the AlphaTauri for a total of five races, up to the Qatar Grand Prix, also managing to finish in the points zone in Singapore, finishing ninth. Ricciardo regained his place regularly from the US Grand Prix, in which Tsunoda again finished in the points, finishing eighth, and also setting the fastest lap of the race, his first personal best and the third in the team's history. The Australian driver the following week in Mexico City was the author of a very positive weekend, in which he achieved fourth place in qualifying and his first championship points in the race, finishing seventh. The team's good moment was also confirmed a week later in Sao Paulo, where the Japanese driver finished sixth in the Sprint and ninth in Sunday's race. Tsunoda himself finished eighth in the final Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, after a brilliant sixth place in qualifying.

Thanks to a renewed competitiveness in the latter part of the championship, AlphaTauri, after occupying the last position in the standings for most of the year, managed to climb to eighth place in the Constructors' Championship with a total of 25 points.

The 2025 season turned out to be more complicated than expected and the team only managed eighth place thanks to some good finishes in the last GPs.

(source Wikipedia)

First race:

2006 Bahrain Grand Prix

First victory:

2008 Italian Grand Prix

Year	Chassis	Engine	Points
2025	Toro Rosso VCARB-02	Honda RBPT	61
2024	Toro Rosso VCARB-01	Honda RBPT	46
2023	Toro Rosso AT04	Honda RBPT	25
2022	Toro Rosso AT03	Red Bull RBPTH001	35
2021	Toro Rosso AT02	Honda RA620H	142
2020	Toro Rosso AT01	Honda RA620H	107
2019	Toro Rosso STR14	Honda RA619H	85
2018	Toro Rosso STR13	Honda	33
2017	Toro Rosso STR12	Renault	53
2016	Toro Rosso STR11	Ferrari	63
2015	Toro Rosso STR10	Renault Energy F1-2015	67
2014	Toro Rosso STR9	Renault Energy F1-2014	30
2013	Toro Rosso STR8	Ferrari 056	33
2012	Toro Rosso STR7	Ferrari 056	26
2011	Toro Rosso STR6	Ferrari 056	41
2010	Toro Rosso STR5	Ferrari 056	13
2009	Toro Rosso STR4	Ferrari 056	8
2008	Toro Rosso STR3	Ferrari 056	39
2007	Toro Rosso STR2	Ferrari 056	8
2006	Toro Rosso STR01	Cosworth TJ2006	1

* Season with at least 1 point won (since 2000)

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